SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
So if you’ve been around startups for a while, and especially sat on any boards, you’ll see a VP of Sales answer a slow Q1 and even Q2 with this: “We’ll make up for it in Q4.” And many variations thereof. In fact, in so many sales plans, you often see Q4 bookings at 2x-3x or more Q1! Even when growth overall is slow.
Payrix
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
In 2023, the Embedded Finance market was valued at $73 billion and projected to grow to $523 billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual rate of 24%, according to a recent report. This growing market is switching up how small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) access financial products, creating exciting new opportunities for software companies to reimagine their business models and restructure their product offerings.
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Kellblog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
“Phew, we sure have a lot of challenges right now,” the frustrated CEO mused after completing a day at the annual planning offsite. “While my executive team is pretty solid day to day, they’re too in-the-box. They’re not creative. They never have any new ideas about how to fix our problems.” “Other than asking me for more headcount.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Suppose you’re a startup in a competitive market with a large incumbent who owns the system of record - the software that runs the sales team or the support team or the marketing team. How do you win? In the last decade, startups have chosen to identify a feature or workflow to improve & leverage that wedge into an advantage. Many have reached great levels of success, but few have overturned the incumbent.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Stax
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Credit card surcharges are increasingly becoming a fact of life. Industry data shows that 9 out of 10 credit card users say they don’t want to pay surcharges but do it anyway. This is good news because it means you won’t have to inflate your base prices to cover payment processing fees. That said, you can’t just decide and impose credit card surcharges overnight.
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Buffer Resources
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
At Buffer, we recently embarked on an ambitious project: uncovering the best times to post on every major social network in 2024. We poured over millions of posts, Reels, Tweets, TikToks, Shorts, videos, and more to pinpoint when the best-performing content was published. To predict the best time to post on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X, we looked at the timeslots with the highest engagement rates on each platform.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
We recently announced our new Hubspot integration as a part of our improved B2B offering. Today, let’s dive deeper into the feature itself and see exactly what it offers and how it can improve your sales-assisted transactions while using FastSpring as your Merchant of Record. If you’re interested in using the Hubspot integration with FastSpring reach out to our sales team or submit a ticket to our customer team here.
Sparktoro
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
This week, I’m taking a full 8 minutes because I want to address an incredibly important email from Russell Wojcik of Liquibase that came in reply to my previous 5-Minute Whiteboard on Content Marketing Evolving Beyond SEO: What distribution point do we rally around if it’s not just keyword rankings in Google?
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Adam Robinson is the Founder/CEO of Retention.com and RB2B. Adam bootstrapped Retention.com to $22m ARR in 4 years by helping ecommerce stores identify their anonymous website visitors and send them triggered emails. He launched RB2B in March of 2024 to help SaaS companies identify anonymous website visitors and see their LinkedIn profiles in Slack for free!
Speaker: Jamie Bernard
Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The 9th All Star SaaS Conference is November 20 in Tokyo and we’ve been meaning to go for a while. The stars aligned this year and I’ll be there speaking, including an AMA, along with several other top SaaStr speakers: Rob Bernshteyn, CEO of Coupa, and now GP at Iconiq Capital Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe Jay Simons, former President of Atlassian, now GP at Bond Capital All 3 are some of the top all-time SaaStr speakers and we’re so excited to catch up with them
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Like in web2, building an app on a blockchain requires several layers & components. Picking the best of each can be a challenge for a developer. Once the stack is fixed, a developer might want to choose the best database characteristics for an app : lower latency for a game, greater security for a financial exchange. Last, interoperability with other systems is a critical way of enticing users to use the apps.
Clouded Judgement
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Microsoft launched Azure in 2010, and Google launched GCP to the public in 2011 (they launched a preview of Google App Engine in 2008, but made it publicly available in 2011).
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
It’s hard to drive traffic, so converting traffic into leads requires even more work on optimization. Learn how to do this in our guide. The post How to Convert Traffic into Leads: 10 Strategies appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
So whose doing well in SaaS today — with almost no “macro” impacts? Folks that sell to the end economy in the U.S. Like Samsara. Powered by the overall strength of the U.S. economy, by shipping, by trucking, by industrial applications and more … there’s no downturn at Samsara. It hasn’t missed a beat: It’s at $1.26B in ARR Growing 36% $24B Market cap, so almost 20x ARR (wow) And cash-flow positive (4% FCF Margins) That’s about as good as it get
Stax
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Customers who walk into your business or order your products or services have many expectations. One of them is multiple payment options. While electronic payments have been rising in popularity, you still can’t ignore cash. According to YouGov Profiles , 67% of Americans still use traditional payment options for in-store purchases. In addition, contactless and digital payment options, such as debit and credit cards, only increase the financial burden for businesses like yours.
The Moz Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Looking for a way to stay connected to the voices and perspectives in digital marketing? Do you learn from hearing and observing but don't get that experience when working from home? We've got you covered. Check out our curated list of top digital marketing podcasts. These shows go beyond tactics and trends, offering a window into the lives and experiences of SEO professionals.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
So Toast is one of the most iconic B2B leaders out there. We’ve all used Toast 10s or 100s of times by now. But while the brand and market penetration is strong, the business model is challenging. It still loses money on the hardware, and the payments side is fairly low margin (28% or less). The software license is high margin, but it’s only 20% of the total revenue.
Buffer Resources
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
I knew nothing about TikTok when I started my account in March 2020. A fellow business owner recommended I get on the platform to expand awareness for my disability advocacy company Diversability , and I gave it a chance but initially struggled to find traction. A few months later, I got a lucky break: I saw friends announce they were part of TikTok’s Creative Learning Fund , and I decided to pitch myself as a disability educator by reaching out to the agency my friends were working with.
The Moz Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Ross talks about how search has changed and how we, as marketers, can navigate that change to produce quality content. With the increased use of AI and LLMs, content creation may seem more complex, but it’s still based on the fundamentals we use every day.
Kellblog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
While I was unable to make SaaStr Annual this year, I am pleased to announce that I will back at SaaS Metrics Palooza , an entirely virtual conference (where I don’t need to walk on my recovering knee) focused entirely on SaaS metrics, and hosted by my SaaS Talk co-host Ray Rike. I’m speaking this year on The Impact of AI on SaaS Metrics at 9:00 AM Pacific on 10/8/24.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Who Should I Fire, Someone Who Underperforms, or Has Questionable Ethics? I would fire both. An underperforming rep that gets a pass just lowers the bar for everyone, unfortunately. No matter how nice they are. If it’s OK for Bob to always hit 30% of quota … then you just won’t have enough pressure and urgency on your sales team. You can’t have that.
Buffer Resources
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Social media changes more rapidly than the weather in the mountains. There’s a new feature, a unique best practice, or even a new social media site just around the corner. Things change in the blink of an eye. I’ve collated a list of 28 social media marketing resources to help you stay up to date — or even ahead of the curve — at all times.
Groove HQ
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
If you’re at the helm of a small business, you know that every interaction matters. But optimizing customer touchpoints across various channels can be a real challenge, especially when you’re short on time and resources. Are you unsure which touchpoints need your attention most? Creating personalized experiences often feels like a luxury, while balancing automation […] The post 7 Tips for Optimizing Your Customer Touchpoints appeared first on Groove Blog.
Scytale
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The NIST password guidelines have come a long way, adapting to the forever changing cybersecurity space and, just as importantly, to how people actually behave. When NIST first introduced its password recommendations back in 2017 (under NIST Special Publication 800-63B), the focus was all about security through complexity. You know the drill—passwords filled with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Dear SaaStr: My startup is nearing the end of its runway – and I found out my CEO has been taking money from the company. What should I do? Unfortunately, this is a little more common than you think. Maybe even more common today than a few years back, as VC rounds and especially seed rounds grew in size, and oversight and controls to some extent took a back seat.
Buffer Resources
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
When it comes to forming a new habit, even the most disciplined person has to work at it. From new workouts to studying, we can all agree that no matter what it is, adding something new to our routines takes time and effort. Content creation is no exception to habit forming. To the untrained eye, anyone with a phone can pick it up and film or type their way into an empire.
Groove HQ
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Is your team struggling to prioritize support tickets efficiently? When you’re relying on a traditional email platform, it’s easy for urgent messages to get buried under less important requests. This leads to delayed responses, frustrated customers, and missed opportunities to resolve crucial issues promptly. Thankfully, there’s a way to regain control of your support inbox and […] The post How To Prioritize Support Tickets: A Guide for SMBs appeared first on Groove Blog.
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